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Poetry Terms Quiz 127 (60 MCQs)

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1. The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables is called .....
2. The rhyme or beat established by a poem.
3. ..... includes figurative and metaphorical language to improve the reader's experience through their senses.
4. A serious poem containing exactly 14 lines, made famous by Shakespeare
5. Dylan Thomas' repetition of the word "rage" in his poem "Do not go gentle into that good night" is an example of .....
6. Main idea or topic. For example:friendship, love, life
7. A word that is the same as another word. An example:Crying = Sobbing
8. A fourteen-line poem with a strict rhyme scheme, often written in iambic pentameter.
9. The author or speaker's ATTITUDE toward a character or subject of a text is .....
10. The author's attitude toward the subject or text
11. What is a small part of a larger work?
12. ..... is the process of giving human qualities to something that isn't human.
13. Which technique is illustrated in the following lines:On Saturday, she silentlyScribbled something in the sunshineAnd sighed as a swift swooshScrambled her shiny, simple sayings.
14. The use of words that help the reader understand how things look, sound, smell, taste or feel.
15. Repeated words, phrases, sentences
16. Organic poems.....
17. Words that express more than their literal meaning
18. The meter and rhyme of a poem
19. What is a group of lines in poetry called?
20. Words that mimic sounds
21. Fancy word for contrast; place 2 unlike objects close to each other
22. AABBCCDDEEFF is an example of .....
23. The speaker of a poem is .....
24. A three-line poem with five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second line, and five syllables in the third line.
25. Repetition of syllables at the end of words, often at the end of a line of poetry, but there are many unique kinds of rhymes.
26. Denotation is .....
27. A sad or thoughtful poem, often lamenting someone's death
28. A type of poetry that includes 3 lines. The first line has 5 syllables, the second 7, the third 5 syllables.
29. What type of figurative language is the following? "I am the dream and the hope of the slave."
30. Two consecutive lines that have end rhyme
31. The interpretation of a phrase(figure it out)
32. Words, phrases, or ideas in a poem that are repeated
33. Her as were as blue as the sky on a mid-summer day.
34. The definition of the term "tone" is .....
35. A figure of speech comparing two things by stating that one thing is another thing
36. Poems are told through a voice called the
37. Direct comparison between two things (NOT using like or as)
38. Poetry not written in a regular pattern of meter or rhyme
39. You are sunlight and I moon.
40. "Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race."
41. Which term means the use of a word, phrase, sound, or line more than once?
42. Poetry that doesn't have a set rhythm, line length, or rhyme scheme; it relies, instead, on the natural rhythms of speech; today the most widely practiced form of poetry in the English language
43. The way a sentence is structured
44. Combination of words that contradict each other
45. The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that give the poem a beat is called .....
46. Which poetry term is used in the following line:'Her eyes were shining stars'?
47. The same vowel sounds in nearby words
48. An idea, animal, or object is described as if it were a person.
49. A comparison using like, as, or than
50. This is an example of:Zero Rez
51. A thing or action that represents, in addition to itself, something else
52. When an author gives human characteristics to a non-living item or animal
53. The rhythmic pattern of a poem
54. The process of repeating certain words or phrases
55. Human characteristics given to non-human things
56. Words which appeal to our senses
57. What type of poem is this?Sunshine, shine brightlyAbove the clouds, in the skyA light shining bright
58. The tree waved to the grass.
59. This is an idea or feeling that a word may hold that is in addition to its main meaning.
60. A ..... is a saying that means something completely different than what the words actually say. Example:It is raining cats and dogs.
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